Art In A Time of Horror

A great painting such as the Picasso Guernica, conceived in the face of the Spanish Civil War, is therapeutic. Its outpouring of humanist despair allows us to reduce and frame the unimaginable. We can turn to art to draw strength and find reason to continue - from the ancient images that say of a vanished people that they, too, once lived, to contemporary painting and music and dance that draw us into the community of human experience. Art cannot explain the inexplicable. It can, however, offer solace and bear witness. For the source - click the title Irish Art